May 20, 2010

ST. LOUIS - Junior Hailee Elmore (Springfield, Ill./Springfield) of the Saint Louis women's tennis team has been selected to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District 7 women's at-large first team by district members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Elmore will appear on the Academic All-America ballot later this month.

Elmore is the first Billiken women's tennis player to garner Academic All-District accolades more than once. She became the second student-athlete in program history to earn the honor when she was chosen to the 2009 second team. Julie Siemers made the first team in 2001.

A communication sciences and disorders major, Elmore is one of only five non-seniors among 20 student-athletes who garnered a spot on either the first team or second team in District 7. Earlier this month she collected Atlantic 10 Conference Most Outstanding Performer plaudits and, for a second consecutive year, was named to the All-Conference first team and the Academic All-Conference squad. Elmore is a three-time All-Conference performer, having earned a second-team nod as a freshman.

Elmore won a school-record 31 singles matches (31-3) this season, including a 22-1 dual-meet mark at the No. 1 position. Her 24 doubles victories (24-7, 17-5 in duals) place her second on Saint Louis' single-season list, just one win shy of Vanessa Van Duyn's school standard. Elmore was 3-0 in singles and 2-0 in doubles at the A-10 Championship.

Elmore concluded her junior campaign with a 58-25 career doubles record, needing just two victories to break the school record shared by Olivia Voils and Amanda Hellberg. With 71 career singles wins (71-19), she needs two victories to pass second-place Sarah Pautsch and 17 to shatter Siemers' school mark of 87.